Conventional fiction

This is the fourth volume in the series "in which the extraordinary correspondence of Griffin & Sabine is rediscovered." The story is written and illustrated by Bantock who uses postcards and letters in an intriguing correspondence among the characters involved in the mysterious story. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The House Party / Nuttall, Jeff ; Joyce J., 1975

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Identifier: CC-30693-32137

Scope and Contents

This novel deals with the theme of sexual perversity. Nuttall also incorporates cut-out texts from British newspapers and marginalia poetic comments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Hunger Angel / Muller, Herta ; Philip Boehm, translator ; Pastior O., 2012

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Identifier: CC-54290-643181

Scope and Contents Muller presents a fictionalized account of the Russian round-up of German civilians living in Romania in 1944 and imposition of them into a forced labor camp in Russia until 1950 based upon discussions with Oscar Pastior who subsequently wrote concrete poetry.Amazon.com: It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processing plant, shoveling coal, lugging bricks, mixing mortar, and battling the relentless calculus of hunger that governed the labor colony: one shovel load of coal is worth one gram of bread.In her new novel, Nobel laureate Herta Muller calls upon her unique combination of poetic intensity and dispassionate precision to conjure the distorted world of the labor camp in all its physical and moral absurdity. She has given Leo the language to express the inexpressible, as hunger sharpens his senses into an acuity that is both...

Dates: 2012

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Immaculate Conception / Eluard, Paul ; Breton, Andre ; Jon Graham, translator., 1990

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Identifier: CC-13381-13682

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First published in French in 1930. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Imperfectionists / Rachman, Tom., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51043-72124

Scope and Contents Publishers Weekly: In his zinger of a debut, Rachman deftly applies his experience as foreign correspondent and editor to chart the goings-on at a scrappy English-language newspaper in Rome. Chapters read like exquisite short stories, turning out the intersecting lives of the men and women who produce the paper"”and one woman who reads it religiously, if belatedly. In the opening chapter, aging, dissolute Paris correspondent Lloyd Burko pressures his estranged son to leak information from the French Foreign Ministry, and in the process unearths startling family fare that won't sell a single edition. Obit writer Arthur Gopal, whose overarching goal at the paper is indolence, encounters personal tragedy and, with it, unexpected career ambition. Late in the book, as the paper buckles, recently laid-off copyeditor Dave Belling seduces the CFO who fired him. Throughout, the founding publisher's progeny stagger under a heritage they don't understand. As the ragtag staff faces down the...

Dates: 2010

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Instant Anthology is the Thought Control Centre of Canada / Arima, Philip, editor ; Bryden, Diane Fitzgerald, editor ; Wilkens, Grant, editor ; curry jw ; Clemens K ; Derrida J., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36750-38573

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The cover was designed by jw curry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Jiggler / Barron, Susan., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29879-31266

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Letter sent to Marvin Sackner for his 66th birthday, Barrons describe an imagined background of his new invention of the motion platform. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)